"...Lift up
a standard for the people" (Isaiah 62:10b).
A few weeks ago I heard a
report on the radio that a group of preachers and preacherettes had assembled
in front of the Governor's mansion to pray. And for what were they praying? Was
it for the salvation of the lost? Was it for the latter day glory of the
Church? Was it for a great spiritual awakening? Was it for genuine revival? No!
They had more urgent matters about which to pray. They met to pray that the
Mississippi Flag would come down! As I continued listening to the report I
realised why these preachers and preachettes considered the lowering of the
Mississippi Flag a more urgent matter of prayer than the conversion of sinners.
This motley crew was comprised of Unitarians who deny the Deity of Christ,
Episcopalians who have endorsed sodomy, Romanists who know not the gospel, and
various other liberals who only have a
"social gospel" which is not the gospel. As I stated in last week's
article, one of the reasons that I have felt compelled to write in defence of
the Confederate Flag and our State Flag is that many of these liberal preachers
and preacherettes have opposed the Flag for professed "religious"
reasons. (I am not suggesting that everyone who has opposed our flag is a
theological liberal, but I am making a point that many of the ringleaders of
the new effort are.) Those who wrap their opposition to our Flag in religious
garb should be willing to tell us what their religion is and what scriptures
support their position. Your unworthy writer is prepared to give you who are
Christians scriptural reasons to support the Mississippi Flag and the
Confederate Battle Flag emblazoned in its ensign.
First,
Christians should support our Flag for what it represents. The Flag of
Mississippi and the Confederate Battle Flag represent opposition to tyranny, a
Biblical and Christian Principle. One day we will undertake a series of
articles on this subject, but for now the reader is urged to read these
passages: Daniel 3:13-18; 6:10-23; II Kings
11: 4-16; Acts 5:29. Believers in the Old Testament and in the New and
all down through the history of the Church have understood that resistance to
tyranny is obedience unto God. The early Christians refused to call Caeser "lord" and were fed to the lions.
Martin Luther and the Reformers believed they ought to obey God rather than man
and began the Reformation. The Founders of America stood on this Biblical
foundation. The original thirteen colonies seceded from England because they
held to this Biblical principle. And our Southern Fathers seceded from the
federal union into which they had voluntarily entered on the very same Biblical
Principles held by the Founders of America.
When the Red
Republicans (that is what they were called in that day and all you good
republicans need to know that your party was founded by people who had Marxist
beliefs and wanted a strong central government; Donald Kennedy and Al Benson
have written a well documented book , "Red Republicans and Lincoln's
Marxists" in which they show the influence of the German Socialists, who
were run out of Germany in 1848, on the founding of the Republican Party; the
Republican Party has not gotten far from its original Socialist agenda as is
evidenced by the reverence that Republicans still give to Lincoln, and by their
singing the Unitarian hymn, "the Battle Hymn of the Republic"),
seized control of the national government in 1860, our Southern Forefathers who
had borne a great train of abuses saw the handwriting on the wall and thirteen
of the Southern and Border States tried to peacefully withdraw from the union.
The Red Republicans, led by the wily politician and corporate attorney, Abraham
Lincoln, then invaded our homeland. After four years of valiant defence of the
homeland our Fathers finally admitted defeat (temporarily). Might does not make
right, and the Northern Victory over the South only proves that the Providence
of our Sovereign God is a great Mystery. The defeat of the South no more
"proves" that the North was right any more than the feeding of the
Christians to the lions proves that the Roman Empire was right. The tragic
result of the Northern Defeat of the South is that we no longer have a
Constitutional Republic, but a tyrannical empire. Although our Fathers finally
succumbed to superior manpower and money it does not mean that their Cause was
not right.
The South, and
the whole country has been under a despotic government since 1865. The Federal
Government of the United States since the fall of the South and the old
Constitution has been increasingly tyrannical under both major parties. The
recent ungodly and illegal edict of the Supreme Court in nullifying State Laws
defining marriage is a case in point. Now I hope all of you who profess to be
Christians will hear me. When we fly our State Flag we are declaring to the
Supreme Court and to every other tyrant that we resist your illegal edicts. The
reason the Supreme Court is able to issue such ungodly edicts and get away with
it is because the Northern Tyrants destroyed the Old Constitution that strictly
limited the power of the federal government.
Mississippi should keep her Flag flying as a righteous
symbol of opposition to tyrannical acts of this government like the recent
ruling on sodomite "marriage" and the infamous Roe vs. Wade which
"legalised" baby killing by nullifying State laws. We may not be able
at this point to resist the tyrannical federal government as our Fathers did,
but we can at least let them know we oppose them and call them the wicked
tyrants they are by flying our Old Flag.
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